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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/1/2009
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Radwa - Thank you very much. I am very interested in the use of motion in photography and this one of my personal favorites. You can read about Luxagraphia here:
http://www.soundunreason.com/InkWell/?page_id=321
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radwa omar
{K:302} 2/23/2009
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amazing shot....congrats,
R.O
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James Cook
{K:38068} 8/1/2007
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Avi - Thanks. They are subtle; they sneek past.
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Avi
{K:70138} 7/31/2007
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WOWWW James.. how did I miss this ??? Many congrats on your second BIP !!!
(I am sure many more are to come !!)
cheers ! :)
Avi
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James Cook
{K:38068} 5/15/2007
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Ishai - Thank you for your kind words.
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ishai gonda
{K:250} 5/15/2007
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Beautiful graphical effect
The repetition and the DOF are special
As the colors
Ishai
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James Cook
{K:38068} 5/7/2007
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Craig - Thanks. Glad you like it.
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Craig Hanson
{K:7836} 5/7/2007
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GReAt aBsTraCt jAmEs~~~~~~! !!!sNoItAlUtArGnOC
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/27/2007
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Thanks, Sergio. It's one of my favorites.
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Sergio Cárdenas
{K:25028} 4/27/2007
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Wonderful shot! great lines and colors.
Congrats for this BIP!
My best wishes
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/25/2007
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Andre - Thanks. This one is a bit odd on the eyes. As a counterpoint, you may enjoy this more complex photograph (also using rope lights as the subject and also shot luxagraphically):
http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1270708
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/25/2007
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Congrats for the award on this one James!
You can get some really strange optical effects just by blinking at this one :)
Andre
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/20/2007
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Khaled - Thanks. Glad you like it. See ya 'round.
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Khaled Mursi Hammoud
{K:54005} 4/20/2007
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Wow... excellent work James, came out superb.
Congrats on the award, well deserved as always.
Congrats again my friend, keep it up, regards,
Khaled.
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/15/2007
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Art - Thanks. I have a couple more from this same series I'll be posting soon. It was a fruitful shoot.
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Art McCaffrey
{K:23645} 4/15/2007
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excellent bip,. congrats,. great form,. regards art,.
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/8/2007
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Sid - Thanks. Let me know if you post something from rope lights.
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Sid Mallick
{K:1040} 4/8/2007
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Amazing Photo! The effect is just incredible. Inspiring me to try something with a few of these rope lights :-)
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it.
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/6/2007
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Yutaka - Thank you. I'll be posting another from this series soon.
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Yutaka Itinose
{K:22586} 4/6/2007
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surely deserving of bip,perfect art.
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/5/2007
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Gianes - Grazie mille.
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Gianes Ma
{K:26069} 4/5/2007
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Great effect,
My Congratulations James!
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/5/2007
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Thank you, Saad. I'm glad you like it.
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saad alqasem
{K:1202} 4/5/2007
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Wow Bravo :) :) :)
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/4/2007
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Thanks, Marek.
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Marek Szymanski
{K:1001} 4/4/2007
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Superb!
Congrats,
best regards
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/4/2007
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Thanks, Carlos. Glad you like it. Rope lights work well as luxagraphic subjects.
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Carlos Hauck
{K:1035} 4/3/2007
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Amazing photo. All things works together very well and makes a great composition. Congrats for the award!!
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/3/2007
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Yep.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/2/2007
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Hmm, James, surprising is not that it *is* but what it looks like when analyzing it exactly. And also very surprising is the fact that it is not really examined most of the time - i.e. you will find not very big interest for questions like "What am I doing whan I am doing what I am doing?" ;-)
Your ratio of photos shot to photos accepted is quite reasonable and also very "healthy", but unfortunately most of the time the process "think then shoot" or "shoot then think" is reduced to... simply shoot, which almost devastates any vision about what an image should say/convey/depict/look like/whatever.
Who needs that inconvenient thing called thinking anyway? ;-)
Nick
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/2/2007
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Nick - Well, that's not too surprising. Last year I shot more than 24,000 pictures. I posted maybe 100. There are other good ones (which didn't get posted), certainly. But there are many by any account which will ultimately be rejected by me.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/2/2007
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James, to shoot it right "just out of the box" is for me the best thing to do, too. And indeed cropping would be another word for "composition a posteriori" - but not necessarily. Extend cropping to its thinkable limit of cropping the image.. out of sight! Cropp anything off - or in other words reject it.
Now, the above in combination with the absense of any composition intentions at creation time, is what I meant. First shoot and then decide which of the shots are good and keep them, and reject the rest. This is always *also* a decision according to the overall composition, even if this haopoens in a quite hidden, unconscious way. The perfection of this way to compose would be to shoot any imaginable image of some subject, and then throw away those that are not satisfactory - which of course meets again the practical problem if infinity.
In usual composition a priori , we also decide what to do *without* really having thought about *all* possible compositions around some subject. In composition a posteriori we simply turn the sequence "think and then do" to "do and then think".
Even Pollock admitted by his choises and very strict filtering of already done works, that the overall looking - the composition - *was* important too, since he rejected some paintings and liked others that contained the same kind of perfect brush stroke. He cropped many of his works completely "off image", if you like, making those that he accepted to compositions a posteriori.
There seem to be many kinds of chaos - chaos that we like and chaos that we dislike! ;-)
Nick
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/1/2007
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Nick - I'd say that composition a posteriori would be exactly cropping. Trimming off the fat as it were. I have done it from time to time, but as stated elsewhere I am most eager to keep shooting until I get the right shot.
Like Pollock I work to get the brush stroke correct (regardless of any appearance of utter random chaos).
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/1/2007
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Thanks, Aniko. Always glad to get a little recognition.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/1/2007
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Thank you very very much for enriching my dictionary, James! I knew that there had to be some other word for what I meant, but up to now I saw the term "cropping" used as a synonyme for "framing", which was not very satisfactory for my understanding, since the two may have to do with each other, but they are not the same.
Well, on one hand you are right and the framing and comosition are indeed not often the central elements of the such things like action painting foir example. But considering the fact that even Pollock did not simply accepted any result of his used tecniques, we see that there was another kind of composition that in some sense was completed *after* the painting itself was ready. Something like "composition a posteriori". Not decide and then do, but rather do and then decide. (And he could be very demanding about a painting - whether it corresponded or not to his vision/mood/wish.)
Nick
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Aniko Heart
{K:26503} 4/1/2007
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Fantastic James!
CONGRATS on the well earned award...
All the best,
Aniko :)
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/1/2007
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Nick - I see. That is usually referred to as Framing. Though Framing and Composition both seem unusual terms used for many luxagraphic shots because my techniques are reminiscent of what Pollock was doing with paint.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/31/2007
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And I mean exactly that, James, the "crop" as it comes from the camera - that very decision to include or ommit something from the composition as seen through the view finder or LCD. It is one of the most basic things this decision of composing. I really admire your skill in generally doing this right out of the camera with no afterwards cropping.
Nick
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/31/2007
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Nick - Thank you. There was no crop. This is exactly out of camera. No post work of any kind. I will post another from this series soon. I'm glad you like it.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/31/2007
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Geometry of light in front of a dark background - and what a geometry it is! Fascinating in its simple lines that still maintain some labyrinthian attitudes without getting too complicated. A bit more sharpness on some of the curves could be an advantage - though the game of sharp and softer curves of light does indeed break the monotony.
As about the composition, exactly the right crop!
Hat off and keep up this series!
Nick
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/29/2007
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Thanks again, Shirley.
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Shirley D. Cross-Taylor
{K:174022} 3/29/2007
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Congratulations, James!:)
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/29/2007
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Yazeed - Thank you. I am very excited to have won.
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/29/2007
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Roberto - Grazie mille. Mi piace que una foto luxagrafica infine ha vinto un premio.
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Yazeed Al Ghuraibi
{K:4588} 3/29/2007
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Just Great .. !!
love it James !
congrats on the BIP
Yazeed
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roberto canepa
{K:7382} 3/29/2007
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i tuoi astratti sono sempre molto gradevoli.
bene hanno fatto a premiarti!
ciao
roby
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/28/2007
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Annemette - Thanks. Yes, these movements of mine are getting well practiced. Rope lights are ling plastic tubish ropes with little bulbs inside of them:
http://www.noveltylights.com/rope_light.htm
They get used for decorating all over the place here.
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 3/28/2007
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Oh, this is appealing, so curvy and calm like a wave - excellent tones as well. James, I must ask you: What exactly is rope lights?
I´m amazed that this can be done by movement, a very controlled kind it must be.
Congrats on the award
take care
Annemette
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/28/2007
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Thanks, Joey. This is a pretty wicked shot. Did you do any post work? I like the patterning in each dash. You should post this. Include a description of the lights sources if you do.
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joey s_nburg
{K:1679} 3/28/2007
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Excellent shot James! Congratulations on the BIP!!!! Here's one of my Luxy shots (attached) not nearly as creative as yours!
Joey
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/28/2007
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Thanks, Roger. I don't know what you are asking about. Find me on chat but it's probably ok.
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 3/28/2007
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now.. introduce the nude and you are on fire dude .. nice werk say lissen.. can I use your sp form this site in a preso I am doin for the camera club please...
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/28/2007
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Thanks, Deniz. Really appreciate that.
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deniz cesmeci
{K:5726} 3/27/2007
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realy nice lines ;)
congrs. to your award
see you
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/27/2007
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Thanks, Marian. I appreciate your enthusiasm.
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Marian Man
{K:80636} 3/27/2007
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wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now this is fantastic dear James!!!! not an easy shot but you did it!!!!!!!
wonderful "bend" of light lines!!!!!! congratulations!!!!!
a favorite!!!!!
all the best
Marian
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/27/2007
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Shirley - Thank you. Glad you like it.
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/27/2007
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Goran - Thank you. I shoot a lot like this.
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/27/2007
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FOusHA - Thank you.
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/27/2007
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Tuna - Thanks. Yeah, apparently all this practice is paying off--more precise control on the results.
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Tuna Esener
{K:-2953} 3/27/2007
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this is symmetric,I know this is very hard to get it in this way.Excellent,a favorite for me.
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FOusHAŽ
{K:1257} 3/27/2007
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This is a fantastic photo.
FOusHA
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Goran Lepen
{K:1307} 3/27/2007
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Great idea, and great composition!
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Shirley D. Cross-Taylor
{K:174022} 3/27/2007
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VERY cool, James!:)
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James Cook
{K:38068} 3/27/2007
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Masume - This is a string of rope lights shot luxagraphically. Here are a couple more shots of rope lights also shot luxagraphically:
http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1270708
http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1128021
Have fun.
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Masume Rahimi
{K:30} 3/27/2007
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James,
Wow,What a great result,i dont know what is it...but i like it so much,A bit Brave but pleasant!
Bravo!
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